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I've been doing cardmaking for quite some time -- I was a great customer before I decided to be a great demonstrator!!  (Sorry, tooted my own horn -- not like me!!) Since I've been buying Stampin' Up! cardstock (c/s) for so long, I have full sheets, half sheets, textured sheets, pieces of DSP, little pieces of Glimmer Paper, etc.!  I had to figure out a way to organize it.  I don't have a super stampin' space yet, although it has lots of tables for card classes and Open...

I never did tell you the story about my journey to Stampin' Up!'s Leadership Conference in Orlando last week!  I live just north of Boston, which means I was right in the eye of what is affectionately now known as "Storm Juno", the Blizzard of 2015.  I had just finished working 12 hour shifts for the weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), and the storm was forecast for Monday afternoon and evening, with my flight scheduled to leave out of Hartford, CT on Wednesday, 2 days...

This has been a week for stories!!  First an adventure to get to Stampin' Up!'s Leadership Conference in Orlando through/around a blizzard, then more snow this week!! This is a picture of the front of our house from the road.  Note the icicles? My daughter, Lyndsey, noticed that they're only on one side of the street!  Interesting!! We received about 15+ inches of snow this week, Monday to Tuesday, and digging out was not so fun!!  But, my husband, son, daughter and...

I wanted to share very quickly the thank you notes I enclosed with my jewelry party thank you notes.  The new hostess set in the Occasions Catalog, Making a Point, has a bunch of cute images.  Although this would be better suited to a makeup party, I think my attendees get "the point" (No pun intended! LOL!)! I embossed the nail polish bottle with gold Encore ink and gold embossing powder, then colored in the image with my aquapainter and the Melon Mambo/Basic Gray ink. The...

Hi friends!  I finally have a few days off in a row to do some fun stamping!  Yesterday, I had my weekly class with my wonderful ladies -- boy, do I ever enjoy stamping and sharing with them.  I'm going to share my class project photo with you, but first I need to tell you that every card I made was cased! Yep, some much more than others!  I'll try to include the source, but let me start out by telling you that I LOVE Pinterest!!  There are so many great...